The Glass Key (1942)
Alan Ladd: Ed Beaumont
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Quotes
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Paul Madvig : I'm going to society. He's practically given me the key to his house.
Ed Beaumont : Yeah, a glass key. Be sure it doesn't break in your hand.
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[to Janet Henry]
Ed Beaumont : I get along very well with Paul because he's on the dead up-and-up. Why don't *you* try it sometime?
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Ed Beaumont : You're gonna die laughing.
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Nurse : Are you awake? There's a lady here to see you.
Ed Beaumont : What kind of a lady?
Nurse : Miss Janet Henry.
Ed Beaumont : Tell her to go away.
Nurse : I can't do that. She knows you're better.
Ed Beaumont : When are we gonna be alone again?
Nurse : *Never* if I can help it.
Ed Beaumont : Then I suppose I'll *have* to see her.
Nurse : No wonder people *beat* you up.
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Ed Beaumont : What'll we talk about?
Janet Henry : You.
[pause]
Janet Henry : Comfortable here?
Ed Beaumont : More or less.
Janet Henry : No fun?
Ed Beaumont : No fun.
Janet Henry : Hasn't your *nurse* been treating you well?
Ed Beaumont : Not as well as I'd like.
Janet Henry : Poor boy. If I'd known you were being neglected, I would have come sooner.
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Jeff : Well, if it ain't sock-me-again Beaumont!
Ed Beaumont : Hello, Jeff.
Jeff : Hey, Gang! Meet the swellest guy I ever skinned a knuckle on.
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Jeff : We're gonna have a little drink.
Ed Beaumont : Okay.
[Walks to the bar]
Jeff : No, not with these mugs!
[Directs Ed toward the stairs]
Jeff : I got just the place for me and you - a little room upstairs that's too small for you to fall down in. I can bounce you around off the walls. That way we won't be wasting a lot of time while you get up off the floor.
[Turns to the crowd]
Jeff : Excuse us, gents. We gotta go up and play handball. Me and Cuddles.
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Ed Beaumont : [Mock toasting Jeff] Here's lookin' at ya.
Jeff : I don't wanna look at you. You're a heel.
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[to the waiter, after Jeff has strangled Nick Varna]
Ed Beaumont : Get the cops. Better get a doctor, too, in case Varna's not dead.
Jeff : Better get an undertaker in case he is.
[laughs]
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[Jeff has just strangled Nick Varna]
Ed Beaumont : Take it easy, Jeff.
Jeff : I'm just a big, good-natured slob. Anybody can push me around all they want to. And I never do anything about it.
[laughs]